Morning Ticker: Who locked Albany Talent out of Troy office?

Pentaudi got locked out of his Troy office because his landlord got raided by the law enforcement

Part of the fallout over the Securities and Exchange Commission’s fraud complaint against Troy financial consultant and real estate developer Matthew Ryan is that his tenant in his building at 13 First St. has been locked out.

Ryan rented space to Albany Talent, an actor and modeling agency run by James Pentaudi, who also has another office in Saratoga Springs and a theater in Gansevoort.

Pentaudi was away when Ryan was slapped with the SEC complaint alleging he ran a $6.5 million Ponzi scheme in which he collected money from investors and put it into his own real estate projects.

He came back to find that the locks on the First Street townhouse were changed, and neighbors said that what appeared to be law enforcement officials were in and out of the building.

But Pentaudi doesn’t know who to contact to get back into his office – or what happend.

“It’s really strange,” Pentaudi said. “I guess they did go in and change the locks. Our key doesn’t work anymore.”

Pentaudi says he doesn’t keep too much stuff in the Troy office, but he has a lot of actors’ photos there, and a spot light, which is expensive.

Who the heck does Pentaudi go to?

The FBI says it didn’t conduct the raid, and the Rensselaer County Sheriff’s office could not immediately be reached for comment.